{"id":915,"date":"2010-04-07T07:51:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T12:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=915"},"modified":"2010-04-07T07:58:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T12:58:08","slug":"irrigation-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2010\/04\/irrigation-system\/","title":{"rendered":"irrigation system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/irrigations3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/irrigations3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"irrigations3\" width=\"300\"  class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-916\" \/><\/a>For years we have been working on building a reliable water system for the gardens.  We have only one external non-water-softened tap and a very large property.  Buying better quality hoses has helped a lot as has replacing all of the washers every year.  In addition we just installed a Lee Valley 30psi pressure  regulator ($15)  and backflow preventer ($5) at the head end of the system.<\/p>\n<p>Backflow Preventer:<br \/>\nIf water pressure is suddenly lost (as may happen during a power outage), water in the irrigation lines may be drawn back into the house drinking-water supply, assuming the two are connected. A backflow preventer stops this from happening. It is especially important to have one if your emitters are touching the ground (soil bacteria can be pulled in).<\/p>\n<p>The pressure regulator itself may be more useful for drip irrigation systems (which we don&#8217;t have) so that they don&#8217;t blow the drip fittings off, but it may also be of use to save our hoses from blowing as well (we have had several blow out over the years).<\/p>\n<p>We use brass  2 way and 4 way manifolds as the plastic ones are plain junk and the zinc ones are not much better, especially with very hard water (200+).  The water hoses are normally medium-heavy duty 50&#8242; (16m) and at each junction there is normally a two way splitter, allowing  &#8220;local&#8221; water access.  The longest run is almost 300&#8242; (100m) and water pressure does not seem to suffer much (especially now with the better hoses).<\/p>\n<p>Water is now available on demand in the greenhouse, and let me tell you, that is much appreciated!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years we have been working on building a reliable water system for the gardens. We have only one external non-water-softened tap and a very large property. Buying better quality hoses has helped a lot as has replacing all of the washers every year. In addition we just installed a Lee Valley 30psi pressure regulator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}